Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general -- and often we know it too quickly.
Alan J. Perlis
Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter.
Eric Raymond
We are on the verge: Today our program proved Fermat's next-to-last theorem.
Alan J. Perlis
I'm not a great programmer; I'm just a good programmer with great habits.
Kent Beck
Motto for a research laboratory: What we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.
Alan J. Perlis
As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications.
Dave Parnas
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
If our customers wanted a product that worked that way, tell them to purchase a product that works that way.
Anonymous
Don't fix it if it ain't broke presupposes that you can't improve something that works reasonably well already. If the world's inventors had believed this, we'd still be driving Model A Fords and using outhouses.
H. W. Kenton
Java is like a variant of the game of Tetris in which none of the pieces can fill gaps created by the other pieces, so all you can do is pile them up endlessly.
Steve Yegge